In Re Initiative Petition No. 347 State Question No. 639

I concur generally in today’s pronouncement that the petition under consideration qualifies for submission to a vote of the electorate. By my concurrence today I do not intend to be understood as receding from my continued and unswerving commitment to Threadgill v. Cross.1 Threadgill teaches that the conformity of a measure’s content to constitutional norms may not be the subject of a judicial examination in advance of the initiative petition’s adoption. Preadoption constitutional challenges may address only vitiating infirmities in the initiative process itself as the sanctioned people’s…